Word: dictatorship
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President Bosch had entered office last February amid emotional hopes. A left-of-center intellectual and a longtime enemy of the brutal Trujillo dictatorship, he announced sweeping plans for reform. He put an end to the country's police-state atmosphere, cut government spending, and made a start on agrarian reform. But he proved to be an inept politician, stubbornly refusing to compromise. He failed to win over the powerful military. And that ultimately proved his undoing...
...should: 1) recognize East Germany and "the existing status quo of a divided Germany; 2) reopen normal diplomatic and trade relations with Castro's Communist Cuba; 3) open diplomatic relations with Red China; and 4) denounce the Diem government in South Viet Nam as a "reactionary dictatorship," gradually pull out all U.S. troops and cut off all U.S. financial help...
...people in the world," orated Algerian Premier Ahmed ben Bella to his fanatically cheering audience, "the Algerians are the last ones who will accept dictatorship." Then Ben Bella proceeded to make himself the one-man ruler of a one-party state...
...considered grotesque customs. I am stunned to see my well-intended purpose maliciously distorted by ill-intended elements who use my words to fit a false, ugly, obsolete and well-organized anti-Catholic propaganda which tries to present the Vietnamese people as an innocent Buddhist majority under a cruel dictatorship of Catholic minority overwhelmed by a fanatic Inquisition mood symbolized...
Even Locks & Bolts. Le Brun's artistic dictatorship was centered in the workshops of the Gobelins, where he directed the manufacture of tapestries, furniture, sculpture, mosaics, wood inlay-even locks and bolts. The style is called "Louis Quatorze," but it might as well be "Charles Le Brun"; seldom has a single man so completely shaped the look of his age. His best paintings were perfectly drawn and meticulously detailed scenes of grand battles and formal parades, but he was also a consummate portraitist with a little-used gift for capturing the nuances of feeling...